The Cakehole

Hi! I’m Jovanna, and I like cake! Well, I didn’t always like cake. You might even call me a “cake snob”. If it’s dry and crumbly…no thanks! So, I started making cakes that I would actually eat (everything made from scratch). Then I decided that I wanted to bake and decorate my boys’ birthday cakes. I mean, I saw some of the masterpieces on popular TV cake shows and immediately thought, “Eh, that looks simple enough. I can do that.” I thought that I would let my older son’s (Jaxon) 2nd birthday cake be my first experiment. It turns out, there’s a lot more to it than I thought! It definitely looked like I let Jax make his own birthday cake. Tears were involved. Mine, not Jaxon’s.

After that disaster, I told myself that I would practice for a year and by his 3rd birthday party (November of 2009), I’d know what I was doing. I read everything I could read, watched every video I could watch, and my mom and I even took the Wilton classes (our instructor, Jackie, was so kind and patient and truly made us excited about learning). And I PRACTICED!! I have to say…I was pretty impressed with that tractor cake. 🙂

I posted a picture of the cake on Facebook and that’s what started everything! I began making cakes for family members and friends. Then friends of friends. Then I had complete strangers contacting me to make cakes for them. So, I decided to pursue the business side of things and The Cakehole was born.